The Great Goal of the Climb

May 24

There is one truth to which we may hold fast no matter how arduous our climb of the Mountain of Life becomes. The reality is indeed, that this formidable mount will challenge our skills as we forge our way through its valleys and peaks.

We are much like the venturous souls who defied the Rockies to reach a new land—one difficult stretch of the climb follows another with little respite between. Sometimes the challenges of the slopes defy our progress—but we resolutely trudge on.

Our spiritual progress can be challenged, too. There are many things along the trail that beckon us to turn aside to them. There may be gold to be discovered if we will but pan the mountain streams we pass. There may be picturesque views to admire if we will but stop to survey them.

But the Word tells us in Lamentations 3:25, 26 that, “The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the ones who seek Him, who wait quietly for His salvation.” When the climb is challenging, the distractions, attractive, His assurance is that those who plod on will attain the great goal of the climb—salvation through Jesus Christ.